Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
IMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot. Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience. Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://aztec.network/blog/nounsdao-private-voting-final-update)
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@baseddesigner.eth
That could help in a perfect world but I bet those representatives arent thinking for themselves, are selected precisely to vote on what the state would, otherwise they wouldn’t be there And selection of another person by the public will never be accepted by UN I’m pretty sure Implies separate informed fair elections in every country and honest candidates
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
voting for what the state wants is ok, the goal is to reduce coercive dynamics between states If we do want to go further, then maybe @rarimoprotocol can make a shadow UN where each country's passport holders can zk-elect a rep (or a few reps, based on a pluralistic formula, eg. rep #2 is the most popular among those who voted against rep #1), and then reps can zk-vote. Then we'll see what that shadow UN's votes are like, and maybe over time it can gain legitimacy on its own.
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